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Presentation of The American Literature : Comparison Of The Scarlet Letter and The Ramayana

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Youth Festival 2018: Academic Task

 Youth Festival 2018: Academic Task: 

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Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar  University has celebrated three days of Youth festival which has given the name as Ashvariyam Youth festival. This festival celebrated on 26th October to 28th October. In this festival there were many events like  One Act Play , Skit , Mono-acting , Poetry Recitation , on the spot Painting,  Collage, Cartooning, Rangoli, Installation, Photography , Poster Making , Western group song and solo song , Bhajan , Group Traditional Orchestra  etc. So the task given by Dilip Barad  Sir to watch this events and do critical observation and try to connect with various literary terms. 

I attended serval events like One act play , Mono acting , Rangoli ,  Western group and solo song and Mimicry. 

1) One act play : 

I have watched only one play " Sikkani Triji Baju". This play is reflect the real life situation. This play is all about the condition of third gender in society. How society looks differently towards third gender people though they have the same feeling and emotions as other human being have but society didn't accept it. Our film and television portrayed this type of people as comical way. So people didn't habituated to look this people in sympathetic way. In this play also shows that how society looks towards this people. This play follows the aristocratic structure of play : Rising action , conflict and falling action.This play have also some tragic elements through we felt catharsis.

    When we read this play from feminist perspective it reflects the woman suffering in society. Because the woman has given birth to third gender child. She humiliated by society and family members. The situation becomes so critical that she forced to left the house with her child. She grown up the child single handed without help of others. So how she treated in society because she gave birth to the child which is third gender and not acceptable in society. 

    This play also reflects the  situation of third gender people in society. They do not treated as human being but society calling them "others ". So we can see how society differentiate this type of people by identifying them as others.

     Also in this play we can see the use of Good symbolically language. In this play this type of people consider as the eighth color of rainbow. This type of symbolical language was used in play. Which has significant meaning behind it. 

2 ) Mono acting : 

 Doing acting  all alone is very difficult task. I have seen two Mono-acting. One is about the condition of lady hawker. Which is performed by my fellow classmate. It reflects the condition of woman in the patriarchal society. This acting moving from comedy to tragedy. So it  becomes successful in generating catharsis in audience mind. It also reflects patriarchal power. At the end she questioning the audience about the ideal woman. Whom they consider ideal woman ? The one who fits in patriarchal mindset of ideal woman or the one who live freely and following her passions and embitions ? So this way she highlighted woman conditions. The second mono acting which I like the subject  was " Ashvathama". In this the girl connected the current condition of woman. She highlighted the situation of girl child. Girl child is killed in mother womb. So this both act was tragic act. It highlights women condition in patriarchal society and suffering of woman for her existence. 

3)  Rangoli:

There were many Rangoli in youth festival. Most of them is the typical traditional Rangoli. The one Rangoli which I like most is this Rangoli. In this Rangoli we can see Nature and technology together. The Nature and technology both are the important part of human life. In this Rangoli both is equally important. Now days technology is most significant part of human life. Facebook ,  Twitter, Google plus , What's app , Blogger , YouTube and Google maps make life easy and fast. With in that the Nature also very important part of life. So in this this two type of things brings together in one Rangoli. It also reflects tradition and modernity in art. 

4) Mimicry : 

  Mimicry consider as one of the difficult form of art. In Mimicry I saw some acts. By attending this session we come to know about the different sounds of things and animals around us. Normally we don't hear all the sound with concentration.  In this session there were many sounds like 

• Sound of table tennis 

• voice of peacock 

• Sound of train 

• Sound of drop of water 

• Sound of vehicle like Rickshaw and helicopter, car etc. 

• Sound of political leaders 

• Sound of cartoons etc.

        So there were many sounds coping by each performer. So each of them capable to coping various sounds one after another. I find one interesting thing that some of them try to creating a story and the sound of things going parallel with the story told by them.

  

6) Painting :

     I have not seen any  of paintings but I try to interprete with the help of their photographs. The paintings reflects me too movement ,  conditions of women ,  harmful effects of using technology and smart phones , Differnce between Digital classroom and traditional classroom , useing smartphone and technology ( Usb code, SMS,  Pdf file , pen drive )  for saving papers. So all these things are connecting  with the current time. 

7) Installation : 

Installation the idea itself the progressive way to giving message by using useless things. In this it gives the message of cleanliness , traditional musical instruments ,  religion and traditional festival celebration  like Navratri..etc.

 This thing also seen as the modern art. Using the boots and hat ,  lock and key. It reflects control over the people. Hat is represtative of mind and boots representative of Body. Key and lock symbolise connection between both mind and body. It is always together.

Thinking activity : The Birthday Party

Thinking activity : The Birthday party 

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Q 1) Why are two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie?

Lulu 's two scenes omitted from movie because probably director don't wanted to show violence into his film. It may disturb readers. Also the center of the film is Stanley ,Goldberg and McCain. So male is the center of the film. If director  show  the scene in which Lulu harassed by Stanley. We felt more sympathy for Lulu not Stanley. So may be it is the reason for omitted the scenes.

2) Is movie successful in giving us the effect of menace? Where you able to feel it while reading the text?

  Movie is successful in giving us the effect of menace. When Meg insist Stanley to play Toy drum at that time the voice of toy drum increase and create violence. Also Stanley trys to frightened Mag. Silence and long pause and unsettled and uncomfortable laugh of character create effect of menace. In text  the conversation between Stanley and Goldberg and McCain the torrent language create effect of menace. 

Q 3)   Do you feel the effect of lurking danger while viewing the movie? Where you able to feel the same while reading the text.

 Yes I feel the effect of lurking danger while viewing the movie. When Stanley trys to frightening Mag and suddenly door knocked by someone. Stanley was beaten by Goldberg and McCain  the whole night. Next morning Stanley even not able to speak single word. During Blind Man 's bluff play Stanley was helpless when McCain broke Stanley 's spectacle. 

Q 4) What do you read in 'newspaper' in the movie? Petey is reading newspaper to Meg, it torn into pieces by McCain, pieces are hidden by Petey in last scene.

Newspaper has a symbolically significant in the movie. Newspaper can be used for hiding self from unnecessary things or situation. In the scene in which Petey reading newspaper and mag is working and asking current news. It shows power position in relationship. Petey in superior position and Mag in inferior position. Newspaper also reflects reality. Petey hide the pieces of newspaper because he not wanted to show Mag reality. Stanley tried to going against Goldberg and McCain may be fight for truth but this pieces of newspapers shows truth is broken and can not stand up against them. By hiding pieces Petey just wanted to go far from the reality that Stanley taken by Goldberg and McCain to unknown place.

Q 5) Camera is positioned over the head of McCain when he is playing Blind Man's Buff and is positioned at the top with a view of room like a cage (trap) when Stanley is playing it. What interpretations can you give to these positioning of camera?

Camara is positioned over the head of McCain when he is playing Blind man 's

Buff. It shows his frustrating nature. He start broken the things when he can't find anyone. When Stanley is playing at that time Camara positioned at the top with a view of room like cage. It shows how Stanley becomes helpless and frightened. During this game his spectacle broken by McCain. McCain not broken the spectacle but he broken the intellectual  vision of Stanley as artist. Now his life is under the cage of McCain and Goldberg. Camara movement happening according to power position. It shows the power struggle between the characters. 

Q 6) "Pinter restored theater to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of one another and pretense crumbles." (Pinter, Art, Truth & Politics: Excerpts from the 2005 Nobel Lecture). Does this happen in the movie?

Yes,  I find enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue which has no connection with other one.  But director also used out door scene in the beginning and at the end. Also very interestingly play opens in movie. Pinter more focus on the life of human relationship which also reflects in movie the characters always struggling for power. So the power struggle between the characters keep going on. 

Q 7 ) How does viewing movie help in better understanding of the play ‘The Birthday Party’ with its typical characteristics (like painteresque, pause, silence, menace, lurking danger)?

    Yes , movie help to understand play. While reading you can't feel the menace, danger of silence. But while watching movie, it becomes successful in create effect of horror and lurking danger. The expression of the character help into create effect of horror. So movie help into understand the some basic things of play. 

Q 8)        With which of the following observations you agree:

o   “It probably wasn't possible to make a satisfactory film of "The Birthday Party."

o    “It's impossible to imagine a better film of Pinter's play than this sensitive, disturbing version directed by William Friedkin”.

  I am agree with second observation. The movie directed by William Friedkin very well directed Movie. It is impossible to imagine a better film of Pinter's play. Director become successful to give justice to the play. Movie follow each and every expression which written in the play. So the movie is very faithful to the play. 

Q 9 ) If you were director or screenplay writer, what sort of difference would you make in the making of movie?Who would be your choice of actors to play the role of characters. 

If I am director or screenplay writer I would like to highlight the character of Petey. I will show him as a strong resister  against Goldberg and McCain. 

List of characters role as per my choice : 

Stanley    : Ranbeer kapoor

Petey        : Nashrudin shah

Mag          : Kiran kher 

Goldberg : Anil Kapoor 

McCain    :  Irfan khan 

Lulu          :  Aditi Rao Hydri

Thinking activity : Waiting for Godot

  Thinking Activity : Waiting for Godot  

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Q 1) What connection do you see in the setting (“A country road. A tree.Evening.”) of the play and these paintings?

                   

The connection between the painting by Caspar David Friedrich and the play is  Longigness. A country road suggest a Hope of someone coming. A Tree suggest liveliness or Birth. Evening suggest Death and despair of desire. Loss of something. So thus the painting and play swinging  in between hope and despair. Road also connecting with waiting for someone. In between waiting for someone person do meaningless things for  passing time. So this all things are connecting with human life.

Q2) The tree is the only important ‘thing’ in the setting. What is the importance of tree in both acts? Why does Beckett grow a few leaves in Act II on the barren tree -The tree has four or five leaves - ?

                    

In act 1 barren tree suggest absurdity in life and death of hope. It also shows the impact of world war ll. Society turns into ditch. In the second act tree with  five leaves suggest hope of something good. Hope of Godot will come. So the play moving from hopelessness to hope. Also it swings between Hope and despire. Nature doesn't effected by human emotions. Cycle of Nature keep on moving. Nature is not effect by human happiness and sorrow.

Q3)  In both Acts, evening falls into night and moon rises. How would you like to interpret this ‘coming of night and moon’ when actually they are waiting for Godot?

Night can be signifies as death and moon signifies as hope. Both Vladimir and Estrogen were waiting for night with the hope that Godot will come. So for Them night was important. Vladimir asked himself that will night never come? So indirectly he wanted to say that will life never end ? So night is connecting with death. Also it can been seen as hope that  Godot will come.

Q4) The director feels the setting with some debris. Can you read any meaning in the contours of debris in the setting of the play?

The director feels the setting with some debris it shows the effect of WWll. Debris means destroy in pieces. Which is useless and meaning less. Human life is also like this it is full of useless and meaningless things. It filled with so much useless things like religion , social values and morality that people can't think to live with out this meaning less things. Person consider it not debris but garden of paradise. So people finds useful and meaningful things in the meaningless things.

Q5)  The play begins with the dialogue “Nothing to be done”. How does the theme of ‘nothingness’ recurs in the play?

The main core of the play is Nothingness.  Vladimir and Estragon both waiting for Godot. Boy the messanger told them "Godot will come tomorrow ". So while waiting they do many things to passing time. But this all things become meaningless because Godot not come. Even both have think to committed suicide but they can't do that.

Q6. )  Do you agree: “The play (Waiting for Godot), we agreed, was a positive play, not negative, not pessimistic. As I saw it, with my blood and skin and eyes, the philosophy is: 'No matter what— atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, anything—life goes on. You can kill yourself, but you can't kill life." (E.G. Marshal who played Vladimir in original Broadway production 1950s)?

Waiting for Godot both as a positive and negative play because at the one side it shows the reality of human life. How we passing our life with meaningless purpose. It questions  existence of our life. It make us free from idea of God. It make us aware about our own importance in our life more than God. People can do anything without fear of God. It shows nature of Nature that doesn't effected by anything. It keep going on. This things also reflect human life that if some one died it doesn't effect others  life. Human life keep going on.

  This play is also somehow effect on people's mind negative way. If person finds his life meaning less it leads  his life towards depression.

Q7) How are the props like hat and boots used in the play? What is the symbolical significance of these props?

                      

Estragon and Vladimir both suffer from same fate. Both have boots and hat but both focus on different thing Estragon focus on boots rather than hat. Vladimir focus on hat rather than boots. So people  have both in their life boots ( materialistic things ) and hat ( intellectual sense ) but person focus on only one things. Estragon wears boots it represents materialistic things. It represents artificiality of life , human body. Estragon not satisfied with his boots it hurts him. It shows unsatisfied nature of human.

Vladimir wears hat it shows intellectual power of  thinking man. He constantly thinking about Godot. He can remember everything because of that he suffers a lot. His thoughts hurts him a lot. Hat represent mind and rational life. He becomes helpless because he remember everything so he can't escape from the things. Because he constantly think he can't sleep.  So it shows that person should be balance both mind and heart.

Q8)Do you think that the obedience of Lucky is extremely irritating and nauseatic? Even when the master Pozzo is blind, he obediently hands the whip in his hand. Do you think that such a capacity of slavishness is unbelievable?

Yes I think the obedience of lucky is extremely irritating and nauseatic. Lucky represent all the human who chained one or another way if the other person try to free them they harm that person because they habituated with that situation and felt so much comfortable with it that they don't want to come out from that. Same thing happened here Vladimir tried to free  Lucky but he  harm him. Even after his master blind he didn't want to free still he follow his orders. We all follow the God even we don't know he exist or not but still we follow him blindly. So we all like Lucky who blindly follow religion with the fear of God.

Q 9)Who according to you is Godot? God? An object of desire? Death? Goal? Success? Or  . . .

According to me desire and success is Godot. Human has uncountable desires in the life. If one will fulfill so people never get satisfaction the crave of getting better things keeps growing. Also successful life will never come because the successful life means person is happy and satisfy with the things. But in reality true success never come because person never get satisfaction and happiness after getting things. It remains for  some movement.  So these desire and successful life become Godot that will never come and it has never end. Though it gives purpose of living  life to the person.

Q10) “The subject of the play is not Godot but ‘Waiting’” (Esslin, A Search for the Self). Do you agree? How can you justify your answer?

  

Yes , I am agree that the subject of play is not Godot but waiting. Waiting is the important thing in the play. Estragon and Vladimir do many things during waiting. In our life we all are waiting for death. In between we do many things to kill the time. The play focus on what we do in our lives. Person abusing each other, spending time unnecessary things like dancing and signing. Vladimir and Estragon contradict each other and question everything , abused each other , doing exercise, hanging. So they do variety of things to killing time.

Q11 )   Do you think that plays like this can better be ‘read’ than ‘viewed’ as it requires a lot of thinking on the part of readers, while viewing, the torrent of dialogues does not give ample time and space to ‘think’? Or is it that the audio-visuals help in better understanding of the play?

Yes I think the play like this can be better understandable if it wil be read first than viewed. Reading of the play helps to understand the things in the better way. If you first viewed play without reading you can't understand it properly. The core meaning of the play not be understandable only by viewing it. It also requires reading and thinking. After that viewing that play helps to understand it.  The play has small dialogue but each and every word has its own importance. In movie you can't find time to think deeply upon it. So reading will be better before viewing the play.

Q12) Which of the following sequence you liked the most:

o   Vladimir – Estragon killing time in questions and conversations whilewaiting

o   Pozzo – Lucky episode in both acts

o   Converstion of Vladimir with the boy

    I like the conversation between Vladimir and Estragon for killing time. They both doing very interesting thing to asking questions each other rather than blaming each other. They both ask each other question about everything. It consider as a intellectual conversation.

Q13) Did you feel the effect of existential crisis or meaninglessness of human existence in the irrational and indifference Universe during screening of the movie? Where and when exactly that feeling was felt, if ever it was?

Yes , I feel the effect of existential crisis or meaninglessness of human existence in the irrational and indifference Universe. The boy comes to tell Vladimir that Godot will come tomorrow at that time Vladimir told him to tell Godot  that he saw us. So he constantly waiting for Godot in the next act the same thing happens that boy told that  Godot will not able to come today he will be come tomorrow. Though this thing happens again Vladimir told him to tell Godot  that he saw him. So it's shows effect of existential crisis and meaninglessness of human existence.

Q14) Vladimir and Estragon talks about ‘hanging’ themselves and commit suicide, but they do not do so. How do you read this idea of suicide in Existentialism? 

Existentialism questions upon existence of human beings . It questions why we are living here ? What is the purpose of our lives?  So In  finding the answer this question person can't able to even find that. Same things happens here Vladimir and Estragon both waiting for Godot even they not know whether Godot really existing or not. They try to waiting for them but at the one point of life they both filled with frustration so they try to committed suicide.

Q15). Can we do any political reading of the play if we see European nations represented by the 'names' of the characters (Vladimir - Russia; Estragon - France; Pozzo - Italy and Lucky - England)? What interpretation can be inferred from the play written just after World War II? Which country stands for 'Godot'?

If we do the politically reading of  the play Vladimir - Russia ,Estragon - France, Pozzo - Italy and Lucky – England then Godot can be considered as Germany and Hitler. It also suggest it's capitalism. Like Godot Germany also ruled over the world. All the country inferior under the rule of Hitler.

Q16.) So far as Pozzo and Lucky [master and slave] are concerned, we have to remember that Beckett was a disciple of Joyce and that Joyce hated England. Beckett meant Pozzo to be England, and Lucky to be Ireland." (Bert Lahr who played Estragon in Broadway production). Does this reading make any sense? Why? How? What?

Pozzo represent  England and lucky represents lreland. England and lreland also some problems with each other on the land. They struggle a lot for separation from England.

Q 17 ) The more the things change, the more it remains similar. There seems to have no change in Act I and Act II of the play. Even the conversation between Vladimir and the Boy sounds almost similar. But there is one major change. In Act I, in reply to Boy;s question, Vladimir says: 

"BOY: What am I to tell Mr. Godot, Sir?

VLADIMIR: 

 Tell him . . . (he hesitates) . . . tell him you saw us. (Pause.) You did see us, didn't you?

How does this conversation go in Act II? Is there any change in seeming similar situation and conversation? If so, what is it? What does it signify?

In the Both acts boy and Vladimir do same conversation. In act 1 Vladimir told boy to tell Godot that you saw us. But in act 2 Vladimir told boy to tell that you saw me. So in act one he cares about Estragon but in second act he become self center person who doesn't care about Estragon. It shows how situation changes the mindset and behaviour of the person.

Existentialism

                       Existentialism :

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It is a philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. In the existentialism Individual is the center rather than God. It was founded by soren Kierkguard , Nietzsche.

Video 1 : What is Existentialism?  

Kierkguard , Nietzsche , Dostoyevsky, Kafka , Shestov, Hesse, Heidegger, Sartre and Beavvoir were Existentialist philosophers. Their views differ from each other but the thing which gathering them that they have basic belief of Individuality. For all of them Individually is important.

"Believe in God consider as philosophical suicide ".Existentialist denied the idea of God Existence. This term popular among young generation because person struggling with their own views. It leads them towards suicide , anguish , absurdity, passion, death and despair.

Video 2 : Myth of sisyphus ( The absurd reasoning ) 

 One of the serious philosophical problem is Suicide. The reason behind the suicide is that person believe that his life is not worth living. It is meaningless. Life is full of absurdity. At one level of life person life filled up full of absurdity. The person judge that thing as life is not worth living. It leads him towards suicide. There is strong connection between individual thought and suicide. Because suicide comes in person mind as thought of it. That's why person finds absurdity in life and absence of any profound reason for living life. For him life is like stranger. Death becomes a strong companion. So absurdity of life consider as suicide.

Video 3 :  The myth of sisyphus  ( Philosophical suicide ) 

Philosophical suicide means Existentialist recognised the absurd but instead of embracing it they suggest to escape from it. Death is the common element in both Philosophical suicide and physical suicide. If once you recognise absurdity then you committed physical suicide but if you could denied absurdity and living in perpetual world. It consider as philosophical suicide. So avoidance of things is the reason of philosophical suicide. It based on three things :1)  A total absence of hope 2) A continual rejection 3) Conscious dissatisfaction

Faith is object of escape from things.

   " Absurd faith is a absurd escapism".

 Faith is used for make self free from absurdity. So by believe in the faith of God person loss his intellectual by not questioning the things.  It happens some time person could not able to find answers of his life and it leads him towards anxiety and absurdity of life. So make self free from it person takes help of faith for escape from it.

Video 4  : Dadaism ,  Nihilism and Existentialism 

Dadaism different from Nihilism. Both have common thing the arbitary values. Dadaism was response of world war ll. It against every value and rule. It movement of quest for change. It questions every value to overcome from it. It gives way to become free from everything and give chance to yourself by creating your own values. It based on questioning everything no matter whether  you know things or not. Question is important because after questioning the value it not reamain true anymore.  I like this thought the most that :

" The absurd doesn't frighten me because from a more elevated point of view, I consider everything in life to be absurd."

Life it mens the absurdity. Person should not afraid of it but taken it as curiosity. Question everything no matter you will get answers or not.

Video 5 :Existentialism - A gloomy philosophy 

Existentialism consider as gloomy philosophy. It based on three main aspects anxiety, despair and absurdity. It suggests the person to be free from idea of God by finding your own truth. Find your own value by judge the values and choose your own meaning of it. The most important thing is to take responsibility of your self and accept the consequences of it. Existentialism can't be connected with narcissism. Though in both self is the centre but the purpose make them differ. In narcissism self love or self effection is the center but in Existentialism searching of self , purpose of life is center and discover self is important.

Video : 7 Let's introduce Existentialism again !

Existentialism is philosophical movement. It becomes prominent after world war ll. The things which ties all existentialist philosophers together is considering with problem of living life as human being. It is based on human condition. It raises the questions like :

Why am I here ?

What does it means to be human ?

How should I live my life?

This movement is difficult because it reject all encompassing system like religious or science. It questing meaning and purpose of human life. It is very difficult to denied and create your own values and meaning of life. It difficult to questing all philosophical and religious meaning of life and create your own meaning.

  It denied divine perspective. It resistant the idea of God and belief of immorality. It reject divine perspective by creating our own believes and meaning to life. Human is the center in this idea rather than God. Person should have control over their life and live it by creating their own values and giving meaning to it and choosing purpose of life.

Video : 8 Explain like I'm five: Existentialism and Nietzsche 

In this video describe the term of Ubermensch given by Nietzsche.  It means person is free to do whatever he likes. This idea connect with free from fear of God. It shows person as superman.person can do things without any fear of God. It gives freedom to choose your own purpose and value of life , making your rules and regulations. No universal morality govern us. It makes us free from idea of God.

Video 9 :Why I like Existentialism?  Eric  Dodson

Existentialism is differs person to person. It has two sides. Intellectual side and deeper side of existential way of life. It helps us to understand life more deeply. It effect both mind and soul. It honestly looking both the sides of life light as well as dark side. Dark side of life is anxiety, death and dread. It reflects reality of life. Understand life in the terms of all that life actually is. People like existentialism because of this things:

● Honesty

● Refreshing

● Reality

● Holism

● Acceptance

● Rebellious way of thinking

● fidelity

● Strategic  irreverence

It also effects upon our day to day life.  It effects upon our thinking.  It moves beyond self experience of life. It helps us to understand things powerfully and alive. It also connect with bhuddhism idea of compassion. Suffering is not our enemy but greatest friend. We learn more from suffering.

" Learning is a gift even when pain is your teacher ."

● Things you can do to live more Existentially :

10) Questioning

9)  Relating to pictures

8) Learn  from experience

7) Claim to your power in life

6) Freedom

5) Passion

4) Inhabite the present movement

3)Recover ability to play

2)Build responsible community

1)Remember you are born in brilliant and terrifying universe

Life is like iceberg. Life is actually far deeper , far more subtle. It is beyond our imagination. The things which we can see it not actually truth it is beyond than that.

Video : 10 Let's sum up : Essentialism to Existentialism 

The crave for meaning. Meaning of things created by religion , society. We think that all the things have meaning but this idea is itself meaningless. According to Aristotal  and Plato everything has an essence including us. Essence give you purpose because you born to be a certain things.  Existentialism denied any sort of teleology. It means that God made the universe and world and us with any particular purpose in his mind. Existentialism based on the idea of " Existence precedes Essence ". It means our birth happens first and after that it is up to us to determine our self and crate our own essence.

●Which video you like the most and why ? 

I like video no 8  and video no 3. Video number 3 connects Existentialism with the Greek myth sisyphus. It describes philosophical suicide. Sisyphus was punished to roll a rock up to mountain to have roll down back from mountain when it reaches. He was so much habituated this work he could not find absurdity into it. Human life is like this. Human being so much habituate with their rutin life that they find pleasure into it. It becomes their comfort zone. They could not come out of this. So this way they committed philosophical suicide. So myth is very well connected with the philosophical idea of Existentialism.

 In video number 8 reflects idea of Ubermensch . It means human being is  free to do anything he likes . It connected with free from fear of God. Human are able to do anything. They are not govern by idea of God.

● How would you describe 'learning outcome' about this activity?

This learning activity through the watching videos help me to understand basic concept. This video help to increase my listening skills. I found many different views to understanding Existentialism. Visualising and listening the  video help me to understand it. 

Interpretation of Breath play: Samuel Beckett

   Interpretation of Breath play : Samuel Beckett 

Breath is a play written by Samuel Beckett in the 1969. It considered as a smallest play ever written. It is only about 30 second play. It also considered as experimental play. This play can be interpretated many ways. The play consider as absurd play. Here I tried to interpretate play. 

● Meaning of the Breath :

Breath means both life and death. In life it consider as the symbol  of action. Sometimes person so much habituated of breathing. Person doesn't realise its actually importance for live life. The play reflects the reality of human life. It reflects meaningless and Existentialism. Meaningless in the sense that people has no any purpose of living life. We live life just waiting for death. Breathing help us to reach ultimately death. So Breath is the symbol of Bridge between life and death. 

The script of the play:

CURTAIN Up

1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds.

2. Faint brief cry and immediately inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum - together in about ten seconds. Silence and hold for about five seconds.

3. Expiration and slow decrease of light together reaching minimum together (light as in 1) in about ten seconds and immediately cry as before. Silence and hold about five seconds. 

CURTAIN Down

This script of play also consider as a script of life. The time of play 30 seconds shows that  how time fastly passes.

1) Breath by Damien Hirst :

Materialistic Earth 

Natural Earth 

In this video described materialistic things. People born in materialistic world. Earth is replaced by Materialistic garbage. It shows how people polluted natural world and turn it into Materialistic world with full of garbage like plastic , technical machines , medicines. It also shows effect of global warming. 

2) Breath - Samuel Beckett by Liana De Jourdan: 

In this video shows fresh fruits and vegetables and pesticides package of fruit juices . People eat vegetables and fruits to maintain their health. But this things are meaningless no one escape from death. These fruits and vegetables helps to live healthy life but it doesn't save us from ultimate death. Also this pesticide fruit juice harmful to human health.

3) National Theatre School First Year Technical Production Class project, production of Samuel Beckett's play Breath.

In this video shows light and garbage. Here light is the symbol of life. Garbage is symbol of meaningless like our life. Garbage made from many meaning less things. Life is also like that people do things without any meaning. This video try to interpretated into two angles. Crying of child at beginning shows birth of person and at the end shows death of person. So people come into world with crying and gone with make other crying. Child crying at birth gives happiness to others but at the end of life crying become symbol of unhappiness. It shows how the meaning of one thing changes according to situation.

4) Samuel Beckett Breath ( Modern Interpretation )

The video reflect modern ara. In this video cover life of human from birth to death. How human surrounded by materialistic things. In this shows development of science. It reflects paradox of  science and Nature. Nature shows detachment from things. People are come and gone but Nature never working according to it.  This things also seeing in human life. One person passed away so because of it others life never stops. Life goes on and on. In the world person surrounded by other humanbeings though person is alone. It also shows reality of human life. Photographs are symbol of memories people trys to preserve memory in the form of photos.In this also shows human health that how body of human depending on medicine. People controlling death with the help of science. But all these things are meaning less because death will never stop by anything. So these all things shows absurdity of life. How human life is meaningless. 

" Reflective Blog "on the teachings of Prof. Balaji Ranganathan

"Reflective Blog"on the teachings of Prof. Balaji Ranganathan

In our department of English we have a guest lectures of Prof.  Balaji Rangnathan during 14th September to 16 September. It was very fruitful sessions for us. He came from Central university of Gujrat. He deals  with The Post Colonial literature. He very well connected post colonial concept with Indian concept. Though he has high level than us because he deals with PhD scholars though he  tried to explain things in the simpler ways.

● In three days session he deals with :

1) Black skin and white mask

2) orientalism

3) A Tempest

4) Imaginary Homeland

5) preparation for NET /SET exams

● Interaction with students : 

His main focus was to interact with students rather than keep going on to explain the things. He firstly gave  us some points to thinking on it . He wanted to know students views on particular things. After listing things what students understood. He started connected it and added his views also. So for him students views also important. He also keep asking us whether we understood or not. After that he moving on other topic.

● Globalisation : 

Sir told us that this syllabus is old. He told us that we should learn about globalisation rather than post colonialism. The concept of post colonialism was appropriate for those time where the post colonialism really exist. But today situation is changed. World moved from post colonialism to Globalisation. In today's Globalisation world is based on equality. In today 's world matter of color of skin is not important. Today  power of money is important rather than knowledge. Today everyone has even opportunity to reflect their thoughts. Language plays vital role to open the door for negro people or subaltern people. So thus we see the power of language.

● Free your self from past : 

In this people  should remove or leave their past. People can use past but to understand the future. People should learn the things from past. Sir has explain psychological reason behind remember the past. People remember their past because they unhappy with their present. So by remembering good things from past person feels happy. People should moving forward with condition of presence not baggage of past.

● Concept of God in Post colonialism : 

  In this how God has described in our scriptures. God is described as white. The concept of white differs from black. White consider as color of divine and black consider as devil. We can't imagine God with negro characteristics. We think that good and merciful can't be black it only white. Color play very important role. In Indian religion Kali Goddess is with black color. She  is not worship at home. she is only worship by Aghori and  tantrik

● Historical knowledge :

Sir has great historical knowledge. He connected Indian history with post colonialism. He told about how our Indian manuscript translated by British. H.H Wilson translated Rigaveda ,  Charles Wilkinson translated Bhagvad Geeta, Hermann Jacobi translated Jaina sutra. So to know culture of India they began to translated every manuscripture into English. Sir has also powerful memory power. He can remember many things.

● Unique technique preparing for Competitive exams like NET /SET: 

Sir has also told the very appropriate way to preparing for NET/SET exams.

●collect the Database of 5000 Questions

● slove all the questions and find your level

●Found the pattern : Things you know / don't know.

● Start feeling gaps.

● Found strong / weak areas.

● start making database which you don't have / which you not good.

Sir has told us to get out from M.A. formation and look this exams as competitive exams. So the most important thing is look this exams as competitive exams. In this exams 3 things important :

1) Locate strength and weakness

2) Probability

3) Time Management

Sir has also told about prepare ourselves for interview. Sir gave  emphasis more on the original text. Second he told us to prepare in two areas which we like most. Last but very important thing sir told us to how body language play important role. Person should hold his /her self properly.

● Flexibility : 

Sir comes from Center University of Gujrat. Sir has very highly vocabulary language. We sometime not able to understand the things so he tried to explain us very simpler way so for him this thing very tough. Though he was successful in it. So he has flexibility to adjust himself. He tried his best to clarify our basic concepts.

● Power of media : 

Media plays an important role to break the larger idea of common humanity. How media control the minds of people. They showing the things to the world which they wanted to show. They portrayed Muslim as a terrorist. This thing reflected through the films and serials and  newspapers. They show Muslim as terrorist. This media has highlighted white people as very civilised and intellectual people. So this is the power of media that plays very vital role into breaking the idea of humanity. Power plays very vital role to controlling media. 

So thus it was very fruitful and knowledgeable sessions for us. He told us to learn new language like French and Chinese. Because today the world moving towards east. So to deal with China and France people need the person who knows this language. Nowadays English considering as global language. So it is used by everyone. So thus sir also get us aware about  today's condition. So it was very useful session for us. It helped us to understand the basic concepts of Post colonialism with the help of current situation. Last but not least I would like to thank you Dr Dilip Barad sir for arranged the session of Prof. Balaji Ranganathan sir.